It was a wonderful reunion with the outstanding German cellist Daniel Müller-Schott, this time in Antonín Dvořák’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra—one of the cornerstones of the cello repertoire.
“We love Daniel Miller-Schott’s heartfelt musicality, and we would be delighted to collaborate with this outstanding musician on other projects as well,” says Guntis Kuzma, artistic director of the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra.
The season-opening concert also featured a world premiere—Juris Karlsons’ symphonic vision for orchestra, “Sunrise.” As Guntis Kuzma explained before the concert: “Juris Karlsons is a person with an endlessly broad cultural perspective, wit, and a relentless interest in the world of music. His music always contains a vivid idea—a seed, an impulse, a story. In my opinion, symphonic thinking very often blends organically with a sense of the stage; the freedom of imagination and vision create the flow of the drama. It is no coincidence that vision has become almost a personal genre for Juris Karlson—from “Vakarblāzma” and “Jāzepa vīzijas” to “Noslēpumainais dārzs…” and now “Saules lēkta.”
In the magnificent program for the season’s opening concert, the orchestra’s artistic director, Guntis Kuzma, had also included one of the 20th century’s most powerful symphonic works — Arthur Honegger’s “Liturgical Symphony”—a dramatic and existentially charged work.
At the turn of September and October, the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra will embark on its traditional fall concert tour throughout Latvia (Ventspils, Lielvārde, Daugavpils, Tukums), and on September 25, the orchestra will also perform the tour program at the International Mažeikiai Arts Festival in Lithuania. This time, the orchestra has invited one of the most promising young Latvian violinists—Elza Siliņa—to join them for the tour concerts.
The orchestra will perform again at the Great Amber Concert Hall on October 10, inviting audiences to celebrate the music of Mārtiņš Brauns. This fall, on what would have been the outstanding Latvian composer’s 75th birthday, the concert program “Mārtiņš Brauns: A Song About Play”—which has earned acclaim from audiences and critics alike—returns to Liepāja.
The next symphonic music program at the Liepāja Concert Hall “Great Amber” is scheduled for November 7, when the orchestra will be joined by yet another outstanding cello virtuoso—the internationally renowned Latvian cellist Margarita Balanas. Under the baton of British maestro Douglas Bostock, the program will feature British 20th-century music.
Tickets for the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra’s concerts are available through the “Biļešu paradīze” network: https://www.bilesuparadize.lv/lv/organizer/50.
The concerts are supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia and the City of Liepāja.
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